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Whist Whist (a trick-taking game) is a classic card game which was played widely in the 18th and 19th centuries and was a development of an older game Ruff and Honours. Although the rules are extremely simple there is enormous scope for scientific play and since the only information known at the start of play is the player's thirteen cards the game is difficult to play well.
Whistle (novel) Whistle (1978), a novel by James Jones, tells the story of four wounded South Pacific veterans brought back by hospital ship to the United States during World War II. Much of the story takes place in a veterans hospital in the fictional city of Luxor, Tennessee.
Whistle (organisation) Whistle is a supporter's pressure group, created by fans of West Ham United that were critical of its Chairman, Terry Brown, following the clubs relegation in 2003 and the subsequent sale of many of their top players. In April 2004, the group published a dossier accusing the board of financial incompetence, and asking 180 questions regarding the club's finances.
Whistle mix Whistle mix is a general term to refer to any pyrotechnic composition which emits a whistling sound when pressed into a tube and ignited. It is used as a rocket propellant, particularly in small bottle rockets.
Whistle stop In United States railway history, a whistle stop is a station which a train stops at only on request, as when there are passengers or freight to be taken on or discharged. Ordinarily, a flag or other visual indicator would be placed outside the station by the station master if the station had traffic.
Whistle stop train tour A whistlestop or whistlestop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time. Originally, whistlestops were conducted from the caboose of a locomotive.
Whistle tips Whistle tips, also known as whistler tips, are a piece of metal installed into the exhaust pipe of a car in order to make a high pitched whistling noise audible for up to a mile. They are mostly popular in Oakland, California, USA, where they achieved notable recognition after a KRON-TV newscast that featured a man who identified himself only as Bubb Rubb who told reporters that "the whistles go wooooooooooo", "When you want the woo woooooo, it's that woo woooooo, you know what I'm sayin'", "That's only in the mornin', you (suppossed) to be up cookin' (breakfast) or somethin' by then, so it's like an alarm clock.
Whistle While You Work Whistle While You Work is a song written by Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline for the 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was performed in the movie, at least unofficially, by voice actress Adriana Caselotti.
Whistlebinkies The Whistlebinkies is a traditional music ensemble based in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Formed sometime in the late 1960s, the group originally played the wide range of popular American, Scottish and Irish folk music typical of the day.
Whistleblower A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or member of an organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power and presumed willingness to take corrective action. Generally the misconduct is a violation of law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest -- fraud, health, safety violations, and corruption are just a few examples.
Whistleblower (magazine) Whistleblower, formerly WorldNet, is the monthly news magazine companion of WorldNetDaily. Every month features a different topic or event in the news, with articles from the website (sometimes in edited or expanded form) as well as original articles and commentary.
Whistled language Whistled languages differ according to whether the spoken language is tonal or not, with the whistling being either tone or articulation based. Tonal languages are stripped of articulation, leaving only suprasegmental features such as duration and tone, and when whistled retain the spoken melodic line.
Whistler (Farthing Wood) Whistler is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann His name comes from the whistling sound an old bullet wound on his wing makes when he flies.
WhistleStop Marathon The WhistleStop Marathon and Half Marathon is an annual road race held in October in Ashland, Wisconsin, in the United States. The course runs point-to-point and is held on the Tri-County Corridor, a rail-trail recently paved with limestone gravel.
Whistling Straits Whistling Straits is one of two golf course complexes associated with The American Club, a golf resort near Kohler, Wisconsin owned by a subsidiary of the Kohler Company, a manufacturer best known for its bathroom products.
Whiston Rural District Whiston Rural District was a rural district in the county of Lancashire, England. It was created in 1895 by renaming the Prescot Rural District when the parish of Prescot was removed from that rural district and created a separate urban district.
Whit Haydn Whit Haydn (b. 1949) is an American magician, the winner of six "Magician of the Year" performing awards from the Magic Castle, and as of February 2006, Vice-President of the organization as well.
Whit Monday Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a movable feast in the Christian calendar, being dependent upon the date of Easter. Until recently it was a public holiday in Ireland, and was a bank holiday in the United Kingdom until 1967, when it was formally replaced by a fixed 'spring holiday' on the last Monday in May in 1971.
Whit Taylor Whit Taylor was a star quarterback for the Vanderbilt University football team in the early 1980s, and quarterbacked that school's most recent winning team to an 8-4 record in 1982. Failing to achieve a career in the National Football League, he was a backup quarterback for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League and then became quarterback of the Denver Dynamite of the Arena Football League in 1987, and in that year became the first player ever to pass for ten touchdowns in any professional game of American football, a record which stood for over a decade.
Whit Watson Whit Watson is a sportscaster for Sun Sports, the Florida-based regional cable network owned and operated by Fox Television. He joined the network in August of 2003 after nearly seven years at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut.
Whit Wyatt John Whitlow Wyatt (September 27, 1907 - July 16 - 1999) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Detroit Tigers (1929-1933), Chicago White Sox (1933-1936), Cleveland Indians (1937), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-1944) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945). Wyatt batted and threw right handed.
Whitaker and Baxter Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter were a husband-and-wife team that started the first true political consulting firm in the United States of America, named Campaigns, Inc.. Based in California, the firm worked on a variety of political issues, though mostly centered within the core of the Republican Party.
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The center is one of Harrisburg's most unique destinations, the first complex of its kind in the United States to use science as an entry to the arts.
Whitaker Foundation The Whitaker Foundation was based in Arlington, Virginia and was an organization that primarily supported biomedical engineering education and research, but also supported other forms of medical research. It was founded and funded by U.
Whitaker's Almanack Whitaker's Almanack is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. The book was originally published by J Whitaker & Sons from 1868 to 1997, then by The Stationery Office, and since 2003 by A & C Black, part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Whitakers, North Carolina Whitakers (pronounced /ˈwɪtəkəɹz/) is a town located in Edgecombe County and Nash County in North Carolina. It is divided between the two counties by railroad tracks and is the northernmost city in the two counties.
Whitbarrow Whitbarrow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve in Cumbria, and forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. Also known as Whitbarrow Scar (though properly that term applies to the cliffs lining its western edge), the hill lies about 9 kilometres (5 miles) south-west of Kendal, just north of the A590 road, close to the village of Witherslack.
Whitbourne, Herefordshire Whitbourne (Anglo-Saxon for "white stream") is a village in Eastern Herefordshire, England on the banks of the River Teme and close to the A44. It is close to Bringsty Common on one side and the border of Worcestershire on the other.
Whitby (GO Station) The Whitby GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line train service, and briefly served as eastern terminus, before the Oshawa (GO Station) was completed.
Whitby (UK Parliament constituency) Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.
Whitby class frigate The Type 12 frigates of the Whitby class were a six-ship class of anti-submarine warfare (A/S) frigates of the Royal Navy that entered service late in the 1950s. They were designed as first rate ocean-going convoy escorts in light of experience gained during World War II.
Whitby Gothic Weekend Whitby Gothic Weekend, often abbreviated to WGW or simply referred to by attendees as Whitby, is a twice-yearly festival for goths, in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, organised by Jo Hampshire who runs Top Mum Promotions.
Whitby railway station Whitby railway station serves the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. It is terminus of the Esk Valley Line 56 km (35 miles) south east of Middlesbrough railway station and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Whitby Transit Whitby Transit is the former public transit agency in the Town of Whitby, Ontario. It, along with the other public transit agencies in Durham Region, were merged on January 1,2006 to form Durham Region Transit.
Whitby—Oshawa Whitby—Oshawa is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Whitcomb Locomotive Works George Dexter Whitcomb (1834-1914), of Chicago, Illinois, started a modest machine shop in 1878, and began the manufacture of coal mining machinery, laying the foundation for the concern that became known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company. Mr.
Whitcomb's Rangers Whitcomb's Rangers were formed on October 15, 1776 at Fort Ticonderoga in New York consisting of two companies of New Hampshire rangers for service with the Continental Army under the command of Benjamin Whitcomb a veteran of Bedel's Regiment. They would see action at the Battle of Hubbardton, Battle of Bennington and the Battle of Saratoga.
Whitcombe and Tombs Whitcombe & Tombs Limited was a book publisher, stationery manufacturer, and retail bookseller in New Zealand. It began in 1882 in Cashel Street, Christchurch, as a partnership between a teacher of French who had become a bookseller, George Hawkes Whitcombe, and printer George Tombs.
White & Case White & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with nearly 1,900 lawyers practicing in 38 offices in 25 countries on five continents. Founded in New York in 1901, the firm has long handled complex cross-border transactions for the financial and investment communities, and is known for its dispute resolution.
White & Nerdy "White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006. It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone.
White (horse) True "white" horses, especially those that carry the White or "W" gene, are rare. Most horses that are commonly referred to as "white" are actually gray horses whose hair coats are completely white.
White (mutation) white was the first sex-linked mutation ever discovered in Drosophila melanogaster. In 1910 Thomas Hunt Morgan, (or, legend has it, his wife) collected a single male white-eyed mutant from a population of Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, which usually have bright red eyes.
White adipose tissue White adipose tissue (WAT) or white fat is one of the two types of adipose tissue found in mammals (compare to brown adipose tissue). In humans, white adipose tissue composes as much as 20% of the body weight in men and 25% of the body weight in women.
White allies White Allies are those members of the dominate culture (in the United States), who actively resist the role of oppressor, and who act as allies of people of color. There have been and are white people throughout history who engage in antiracist activities.
White ally White ally is a term sometimes used in the United States to describe a person who is considered to be of white ethnicity who takes an active role in working towards the goals of racial equality and works on behalf of people of color.
White and Black Blues White and Black Blues was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in French (with some words in English) by Joëlle Ursull. The song was performed fourteenth on the night of the competition.
White and Poppe White and Poppe were Coventry based proprietary engine and gearbox manufacturers. Prior to WWI they served the booming motor industry but in 1919 during the post WWI recession they were bought by Dennis Brothers of Guildford and became a subsidiary.
White armor White armor, or alwyte armor, was a form of plate armour worn in the Late Middle Ages characterized by full-body steel plate without a surcoat. Around 1420 the surcoat, or "coat of arms" as it was known in England, began to disappear, in favor of uncovered plate.
White Abalone The White Abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) is a species of abalone. The shell fish has a high poison pH but sometimes confused as the only type of abalone due to the spread of western culture and because it is the most widely consumed.
White African White African people are descendants of Europeans who settled in the continent of Africa under colonial rule. (Known in Shona as the Mukiwa, and in Nguni languages as abeLungu) These individuals are mostly of Dutch, British, French, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent Italian, Belgian and German ancestry.
White Alice Communications System The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska, during the cold war. It featured tropospheric scatter links and line of sight microwave radio links.
White Amur Tiger The existence of pure white Amur Tiger has not been scientifically proven, despite occasional reports of sightings of white tigers in the regions where wild Siberian tigers live. It is quite possible that the gene for white coating does not exist in the Siberian tiger population, since no pure white Siberian tigers have been born in captivity even though the Siberian tiger has been extensively bred during the last decades.
White Aryan Resistance (Sweden) White Aryan Resistance (Swedish: Vitt Ariskt MotstĂĄnd), also known as VAM, is a network of Neo-Nazi groups in Sweden. The name comes from the US organisation WAR but the point of the acronym is lost in the translation.
White Ash The White Ash (Fraxinus americana) is one of the largest of the ash genus Fraxinus, growing to 35 m (115 ft) tall. It is native to eastern North American hardwood forests, found in mesophytic forests from Quebec to northern Florida.
White blackberry The white blackberry is an unusual white variety of blackberry developed by plant breeder Luther Burbank, also known as the "Iceberg white blackberry". Burbank tried out 65,000 unsuccessful crossbreeds http://www2.
White blood cell White blood cells or leucocytes are cells which form a component of the blood. They are produced in the bone marrow and help to defend the body against infectious disease and foreign materials as part of the immune system.
White box (computer hardware) In computer hardware, a white box is a personal computer assembled from off-the-shelf parts. The term is applied to systems assembled by small systems integrators, and to homebuilt computer systems assembled by end users from parts purchased separately at retail.
White box (software engineering) In software engineering, white box, in contrast to a black box, is a subsystem whose internals are visible to view, but usually cannot be altered. This is useful during white box testing, where a system is examined to make sure that it fulfills its requirements.
White box of doom In Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and (possibly) also Windows NT, a "White Box of Doom" will appear if an error occurs while loading a system-critical application or process, such as the system shell (e.g.
White bread White bread is bread constructed from wheat flour from which the bran and germ have been removed, in contrast to whole wheat bread made from whole wheat flour, in which these parts are retained and contribute a brownish color. In addition, this white flour is generally bleached using potassium bromate or chlorine dioxide gas to remove any slight yellow color and make its baking properties more predictable.
White Balloon The White Balloon (, Badkonake sefid, 1995) is the debut feature film of Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, with a screenplay by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami . The movie received many strong critical reviews and won many awards in the international film fairs around the world including the Prix de la Camera d'Or from Cannes Film Festival in 1995.
White Banners White Banners (1938) is a film which tells the story of a homeless woman who finds a home with a kind couple in order to be near to their young neighbor, her son whom she had given up for adoption. It stars Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, and Bonita Granville.
White Bear and Red Moon White Bear and Red Moon (WBRM) is a fantasy board wargame set in the peculiar fantasy world of Glorantha, invented by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Greg set up the successful Chaosium game publishing company purely to produce and market this game, although Chaosium eventually evolved into a successful company with multiple product lines.
White Bear Lake Area High School White Bear Lake Area High School, abbreviated WBLAHS, is a high school in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The school was formed by merging White Bear High School and White Bear Lake Mariner High in 1983, and currently consists of two campuses: North Campus, with grades nine and ten; and South Campus, with grades eleven and twelve.
White Biting Dog White Biting Dog is a play by two time Governor General Award winning playwright Judith Thompson. Pony (film) is an awarding winning short film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly featuring Pony's monologue in the story.
White Bluff, Georgia White Bluff was a collection of communities—Nicholsonboro, Rose Dhu, Twin Hill, and Cedar Grove—located in Chatham County, Georgia, United States and now part of Savannah. In 1940, as part of research published in Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, the total population was estimated at 400.
White Book The White Book, which was released in 1987 by Sony, Philips, Matsushita, and JVC refers to a standard of compact disc that stores not only sound but also still pictures and motion video. These discs, most commonly found in Asia, are usually called "Video CDs" or "VCDs.
White Booklet The White Booklet is the popular name for the Spelling Guide of Our Language (Spellingwijzer Onze Taal), a publication of the Genootschap Onze Taal. The first edition was released in October 1998; the latest edition is the tenth and was released in 2004.
White Box Enterprise Linux White Box Enterprise Linux is a free Linux distribution that is an alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, primarily funded by the Beauregard Parish Library in Louisiana. White Box aims to be 100% binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
White Box Requiem White Box Requiem is the twenty-fifth album by Jandek, and his only for (1996).Released as Corwood Industries #0763, it is essentially a "concept album" (see the title) about a guy who opens a "Pandora's box" of sorts.
White Building The White Building, also known as the Heberling Building, is located in the McLean County, Illinois city of Bloomington. Located along Bloomington's East Douglas Street, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June 1994.
White Bull White Bull (Sioux: Pte-san-hunka) (April, 1849 – June 21, 1947) was the nephew of Sitting Bull, and a famous warrior in his own right. White Bull participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.
White Buses White Buses was the term used for a humanitarian effort spearheaded by the Swedish count Folke Bernadotte under the auspices of the Red Cross that by the end of World War II saved thousands of Norwegian and Danish prisoners from German concentration camps. The term "white buses" originates from the practice of painting the buses used for transportation in white with red crosses on the sides and roof in order to avoid confusion with military vehicles.
White cane A white cane is used by many people who are blind or visually impaired, both as a mobility tool and as a courtesy to others. Not all modern white canes are designed to fulfill the same primary function, however: There are at least five different varieties of this tool, each serving a slightly different need.
White certificates In environmental policy, White certificates are documents certifying that a certain reduction of energy consumption has been attained. In most applications, the white certificates are tradable and combined with an obligation to achieve a certain target of energy savings.
White coat A white coat or laboratory coat is a knee-length overcoat/smock worn by professionals in the medical field or by those involved in laboratory work to protect their street clothes. The garment is made from white cotton or linen to allow it to be washed at high temperature and make it easy to see if it is clean.
White coat ceremony The white coat ceremony (WCC) is a relatively new ritual in Western universities that mark one's entrance into medical school and, more recently, into podiatric medical school, dental school, pharmacy school and some allied health professions. It originated in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1993Huber SJ, "The white coat ceremony: a contemporary medical ritual.
White coffee White coffee is an herbal tea, invented in Beirut, made with orange blossom water. Traditionally served after meals in Lebanon and Syria, it is often accompanied by candied rose petals, served in tiny, delicate dishes.
White croaker White croaker (Genyonemus lineatus) is a species of croaker occurring in the Eastern Pacific. White croakers have been taken from Magdalena Bay, Baja California, to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but are not abundant north of San Francisco.
White Campion Silene latifolia, or White Campion, is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, western Asia and north Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40-80 cm tall.
White Cane Safety Day White Cane Safety Day is a holiday celebrated on October 15 of each year since 1964 in the United States. The date is set aside to celebrate the achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and the important symbol of blindness and tool of independence, the white cane.
White Carpathians The White Carpathians (Czech: Bílé Karpaty; Slovak: Biele Karpaty) are mountains in the western part of the Carpathian Mountains. They are part of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians and are situated on the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
White Castle (restaurant) White Castle is the oldest American hamburger fast food restaurant chain. It is known for square burgers, commonly referred to as "sliders" (or "slyders"), which were priced at 5 cents until the 1940s, and remained at ten cents for years thereafter while growing smaller.
White Castle (Wales) White Castle (Welsh: Castell Gwyn) is a mediæval castle located in Monmouthshire, Wales. The name "White Castle" was first recorded in the thirteenth century, and was derived from the whitewash put on the stone walls.
White Citizens Parties The White Citizens Parties were autonomous local parties (often county based) in the greater Southern United States, that served as the public face and often directly as what would today be considered Political Action Committees for racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. These groups flourished after Reconstruction when the Union withdrew its troops from the South.
White City Amusement Park, New Orleans White City was an amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana, functioning from 1907 to 1913. It was located in what became part of Mid City New Orleans, only recently opened for development at the time after improvements in drainage.
White City railway station, Melbourne White City is a former railway station that was located on the Sydenham line (then the St Albans line) of the Melbourne suburban rail system in Melbourne, Australia. It was located approximately 700 metres west of Tottenham railway station.
White City Stadium White City Stadiumbuilt in London], [[England, for the 1908 Summer Olympics, was the first purpose-built Olympic stadiumCompleted in just 10 months, it was officially opened by King Edward VII] on [[27 April 1908. Upon completion, the stadium had a running track that was 24ft wide and a distance equivalent of three laps to the mile; outside it was a 35ft wide, 660yd long cycle track.
White City, London White City is a place in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Home to the BBC Television Centre and BBC White City, it was level arable farmfields until it became the site of the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games in 1908 and the Japan-British Exhibition in 1910.
White City, Manchester The White City Retail Park is a retail park on the south side of Chester Road in the Old Trafford area of Manchester in England, at the southeast corner of the docks area and southeast of Manchester United's ground: map.
White City, Tel Aviv The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, ha-ʿir ha-levana) is the name given to Tel Aviv, Israel, because of the large number of white, or light-colored buildings built there between the 1920s and the 1950s in the Bauhaus or International style. The International style is generally regarded as an extension of the Bauhaus style, as continued outside Germany.
White Clay Creek White Clay Creek is a tributary of the Christina River, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in southern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. It is renowned for its scenic character and is largely federally protected.
White Clay Creek Preserve White Clay Creek Preserve is a Pennsylvania State Park along the valley of White Clay Creek in Chester County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park was donated by the DuPont Company in 1984 for the purpose of "preserving the diverse and unique plant and animal species, and the rich cultural heritage of the area".
White Clay Hundred White Clay Hundred is the name of an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly, and while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, they presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographical point of reference.
White Cliffs Solar Power Station, New South Wales White Cliffs Solar Power Station is Australia's first solar power station. It is located at White Cliffs, New South Wales, which was chosen as it has the highest insolation in New South Wales, and in 1981 when the station was constructed had no grid connection.
White Cloud Mountain minnow The White Cloud Mountain minnow (Tanichthys albonubes) is a very hardy species of freshwater aquarium fish. It is a member of the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes, native to China and Vietnam.
White Cloud Temple The White Cloud Temple of Beijing, China is located outside Xibianmen in Beijing. It is one of "The Three Great Ancestral Courts" of the Complete Perfection Sect of Taoism, and is titled "The First Temple under Heaven".
White Coffee Pot White Coffee Pot Family Inns was a privately-held Baltimore, Maryland restaurant chain and coffeeshop popular from the 1940s until the 1980s. During the 1960s and 1970s they opened a chain of fast-food restaurants White Coffee Pot, Jr.
White Collar Boy "White Collar Boy" (or "The White Collar Boy", as it is labeled on the cover) is the third single lifted from the Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit. The track was released on June 26, 2006 on Rough Trade Records, and is produced by Tony Hoffer.
White Collar Zen White Collar Zen is a book project by Steven Heine, who is primarily known for his research on medieval Japanese religion and society. The project deals with the principles of Zen Buddhism in relation to the contemporary workplace and professional leadership issues.

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